Upcoming Discussions
A while back folks asked us to let them know when we schedule book discussions so that they can go buy the book and come prepared. Now that we're scheduling our discussions out in advance (more or less), we decided to do just that with a calendar on the bottom right of the side.
Also, we want your help. What books should we be discussing? The thread is yours.
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April 29, 2008 6:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
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April 29, 2008 6:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
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Great calender and good choices.
I know it's cool to have the author involved in the discussion but would you run a book club if the author was unwilling or unavailable. You could get a bunch of people who, together with the commenters, would wind up creating a group review.
That would allow us to take down some books from the right, whether their authors would appear here or not.
April 29, 2008 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet, Michael Klare
April 29, 2008 7:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here are 31 political books scheduled for appearance this spring and summer.
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Dictatorship of Capital: Politics And Culture in the 21st Century, Tariq Ali, Verso
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, Jeff Sharlet, Harpercollins
Ark of the Liberties: America and the World, Ted Widmer, Hill & Wang
The End of Food, Paul Roberts, Houghton Mifflin
Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians, Chris Hedges, Chris/Laila Al-arian, Nation Books
Let Them in: Six Common Arguments Against Immigration and Why They Are Wrong, Jason Riley, Gotham Books
A Time to Fight, Jim Webb, Broadway Books
The Samaritan's Dilemma, Deborah Stone, Nation Books
Last Chance, Lee Daniels, Public Affairs
The Uprising, David Sirota, Crown
Alpha Dogs: The Men Who Turned American Spin into a Global Business, James Harding, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America, Stephen Trimble, Univ Of California Press
Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice, Bill Fletcher Jr./Fernanado Gapasin, Univ Of California Press
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Vincent Bugliosi, Vanguard Press
Return to Common Sense: 7 Bold Reforms You Can Make to Save Our Failed Goverment, Michael Waldman, Sourcebooks
Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia, Marshall I. Goldman, Oxford Univ Press
The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush, Elvin T. Lim, Oxford Univ Press
Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment, Kathleen Hall Jamieson/ Joseph Capella, M.D., Oxford Univ Press
Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters, Richard A. Clarke, Ecco
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America Thomas L. Friedman, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China, Philip P. Pan, Simon & Schuster
Predator State: How Republican Economics Screwed Us, and What We Should Do About It, James Galbraith, Free Press
Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, Philippe Sands, Palgrave Macmillan
State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind, Bryant Welch, Thomas Dunne Books
The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America, Robert Scheer, Twelve
Putin's Kremlin: How the West Misinterprets Modern Russia, Bruno S. Sergi, Continuum
Letter to a New President: Essential Lessons for Our Next Leader, Robert C. Byrd, Thomas Dunne Books
This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation, Barbara Ehrenreich, Metropolitan/Henry Holt
No Easy Fix: Global Responses to Internal Wars and Crimes Against Humanity, Patricia Marchak, Mcgill-Queens Univ Press
Why We Hate Us: Phonies, Fakes, and Nomads in the Media Age, Dick Meyer, Random House
Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, Ahmed Rashid, Viking
April 29, 2008 8:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Re-Engage, Helena Cobban
http://justworldnews.org/archives/cobbanreengage.pdf
April 29, 2008 11:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East"
by Robin Wright, Penguin
a recent review
"Who Owns Antiquity?"
by James Cuno, Princeton University
a recent review
"The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns"
by D. Sunshine Hillygus, Todd G. Shields, and Todd G. Shields, Princeton University Press
new, interview with authors on research here
"WALL STREET, America’s Dream Palace"
by Steve Fraser, Yale University Press
a recent review
"Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America"
by Rick Perlstein, Scribner
a recent review
"The Man Who Pushed America to War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi"
by Aram Rostom, Nation Books
a recent review
"The Soprano State: New Jersey's Culture of Corruption"
Bob Ingle, Trenton bureau chief of Gannett Newspapers, and Sandy McClure is a veteran political reporter
Reviews from the book's website.
"Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think"
by John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed
New; from the Amazon page:
the product of a mammoth six-year study in which the Gallup Organization conducted tens of thousands of hour-long, face-to-face interviews with residents of more than 35 predominantly Muslim nations — urban and rural, young and old, men and women, educated and illiterate
“French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States”
by Francois Cusset, University of Minnesota Press
a recent review
"China's Trapped Transition, The Limits of Developmental Autocracy"
by Minxin Pei, Harvard University Press
Harvard Press' blurb
just for fun, I double dare you :-) to try:
"Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges"
by Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner
New
April 30, 2008 1:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
In Radicals in Robes, Cass Sunstein artfully exposes some of the inconsistency in Scalia's statements and opinions. He is far harder on Justice Thomas, however, although it's all above the belt.
May 5, 2008 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, thank you, management, for the calendar listing upcoming book discussions. This is an improvement many have suggested and it is good to see this in place now.
April 30, 2008 9:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
The calendar is great!
Thanks!
And the lists of recommended books above is simply staggering. There aren't enough hours in the day to read them all (though I'd like to try).
There are older gems that deserve a good airing but with so many great new books there's hardly room on a calendar for them. And then there are the classics that need read in order to understand how our culture got to this state. A great problem to have is too many wonderful choices.
Someone mentioned posting books from the right in order to do a group review/critique but let me say right now, I'm not buying anything from Regnery Press!
April 30, 2008 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I still want you to invite Darius Rejali to discuss his book "Torture and Democracy."
It's a great piece of work that is simultaneously academic and accessible.
April 30, 2008 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink